what was it about sandy that made it so dangerous? why has this year's hurricane season been so tame? we don't want to jinx anything. here now is meteorologist janice dean. >> can you believe it was a year ago today that we were talking about super storm sandy? and i wish that i could take the credit for it but the computer modelling was just incredible. we knew about a week out that this storm had the potential to be a disaster across millions of people, a heavily populated area and the angle of the storm was really the key to why this was such a damaging system. so as we take a look at the satellite radar imagery going back a year ago, you can see where the storm made landfall and it was really -- it was a couple of things. it was the angle of the storm because you had long island sound and new york harbor so all of that water just funneled into this heavily populated area. we were 15 minutes away from high tide so we saw a storm surge of 13 to 15 feet. and of course, millions of people live in the area. it changed the landscape of